Hall of fameBaker McKenzie LLP
Mohamed Ghannam is the managing partner of Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. Mohamed heads the Banking, Projects, and Capital Markets Practice Groups.
Commercial, corporate and M&A
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ADSERO-Ragy Soliman & Partners
Co-Founder and Head of Corporate, Commercial and Regulatory practice area
Sharkawy & Sarhan Law Firm
Mohamed Nabil Hazzaa is a partner at Sharkawy & Sarhan Law Firm. Mohamed’s Practice focuses on capital market, M&A and infrastructure projects. Mohamed is leading Sharkawy & Sarhan’s M&A practice as well as its prolific power and utilities practice and regularly regarded in directories of law firms. Mohamed was also selected by IFLR1000 Chambers & Partners as a leading/highly regarded lawyer. Mohamed Started his career as a junior associate with Sharkawy & Sarhan and was seconded to the magic circle law firm Allen & Overy LLP in the Dubai office during 2014. Throughout his career, he has been the legal advisor on some of ground-breaking M&A transactions including advising on the sale of majority stakes in two major Egyptian banking units (BNP Paribas and NSGB) and purchase of majority stake in Barclays Bank Egypt, in addition to advising on potential purchase of Piraeus Bank Egypt by Standard Chartered Bank and the acquisition by Fairfax of a minority stake in CIB from Actis. He has also advised several financial institutions and regulatory bodies in connection with wide spectrum of capital market aspects, including Fairfax, Blakeney, Morgan Stanley and Goldmansachs. In addition, Mohamed regularly advises EFG Hermes and its assets management, investment banking, private equity and stock-brokerage arms on a wide variety of capital market issues relating to assets management, custody, stock-brokerage and general regulatory and compliance aspects relating to financial services activities. Mohamed has also in-depth focus on power & renewables and utilities advising clients on all regulatory aspects relating to power and utilities projects. In particular, he has advised CGN on acquisition of of 1Malaysia Development Berhad involving the only three IPPs in the Egyptian market. In addition, he has an outstanding footprint in the Egyptian renewable energy sector having advised all financial institutions involved in the second round of the feed-in tariff program program as well as advising on several utility scale BOO projects and the first ever distributed generation projects to be financed by DFIs.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
BonelliErede
Partner at Bahaa-Eldin Law Office in cooperation with BonelliErede, Mohamed El Ehwany specialises in corporate M&A and commercial law. He is a member of the Africa Team.
Leading associates
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Dentons
Ahmed Kamal is a qualified and resourceful professional attorney with diverse experience in private, government and corporate investment. He works on many of the major trade, energy, banking, financial, media and telecommunication projects. With excellent problem-solving skills and extensive marketing experience, he has developed a deep knowledge of Egyptian public policy and regulations.His broad experience includes counseling clients on legal matters concerning procurement fraud, trade regulations, trade finance, banking transactions, acquisitions and mergers, telecommunications, and corporate laws including bankruptcy. In recent years Ahmed has substantially developed his experience and knowledge of banking transactions and related topics including, inter alia, various security packages, perfection and enforcements, and AML/FT rules. He also assists our Litigation team in finding unique theories, ideas and solutions to create effectual case arguments.
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